tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298105293143495655.post4642857362941587207..comments2024-02-28T21:15:07.992-08:00Comments on Prequels Scene of the Day: Rogue One: We Got Death StarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298105293143495655.post-30865175962802421592017-01-06T06:58:26.701-08:002017-01-06T06:58:26.701-08:00I'd like to hear your thoughts on choice to in...I'd like to hear your thoughts on choice to include scenes of the Imperial commanders' internal disputes and manoeuvrings. My thoughts were that it's to show that, as much as the empire probably seems like a harsh but mostly-fair stable bureaucracy to the majority of its citizens, at the highest levels it's populated by petty bullies like Tarkin and Lord "I live in a lava castle" Vader - much like the man who runs it all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298105293143495655.post-87622323464038660962017-01-05T14:10:28.465-08:002017-01-05T14:10:28.465-08:00//Which of course, is totalitarianism's downfa...//Which of course, is totalitarianism's downfall. They're both a single point of failure for bad ideas taking hold, and also a SPF for the entire system being decapitated.//<br /><br />Not to mention, a major reason behind totalitarianism's short-term successes and attractiveness. <br /><br />//If the bridge is completed, our world becomes the death world//<br /><br />Terraforming, then, or at least, I don't know, Necroforming or whatever you'd like to call it? <br /><br />//The ultimate form of the Empire wants to get rid of them both, so it can replace them. And (as we can see from how Tarkin treats Krennik) the new, efficient Empire hates its still-human civil service as much as or even more than it hates the rebels.//<br /><br />Makes me think of the Ascended Economy, and gives me ideas of a theoretical post-Emperor Empire whose deep state is so vast and dense that the Empire nearly becomes a sort of incomprehensible deity of the Lovecraftian variety, endlessly perpetuating itself through time and space. Callmesalticidaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13295676800846037056noreply@blogger.com